Memory Lane to Sendai(PART 3 OF 3)
【Himiko's Monologue】
Wow! ... What an impressive performance!
I'm not much of a jazz fan myself, but I like Oscar Peterson, too.
How about you?
Come to think of it, I've never met a "Oscar Peterson"---a music-loving decent man in my life.
How come I'm always a loner?
I wish I could meet a nice gentleman at the library in my town as Diane met Kato.
Well, they say, there is a way where there is a will.
Have a nice day!
Bye bye ...
If you've got some time,
Please read one of the following artciles:
■"Marilyn Monroe"
■"Hello Diane!"
■"I wish you were there!"
■"Jane Eyre"
■"Jane Eyre Again"
■"Jane Eyre in Vancouver"
■"Jane Eyre Special"
■"Love & Death of Cleopatra"
■"Nice Story"
■"Scrumdiddlyumptious"
■"Spiritual Work or What?"
■"What a coincidence!"
■"Wind and Water"
■"Yoga and Happiness"
■"You're in a good shape"
■"Hellelujah!"
■"Ecclesiophobia"
■"Uncorruptible"
■"Net Travel & Jane"
■"Net Love"
■"Complicated Love"
■"Electra Complex"
■"Net Début"
■"Inner World"
■"Madame Riviera and Burger"
■"Roly-poly in the North"
■"Amazing Grace"
■"Diane in Paris"
■"Diane in Montmartre"
■"Diane Well Read"
■"Wantirna South"
■"Maiden's Prayer"
■"Bandwidth"
■"Squaw House and Melbourne Hotel"
■"Tulips and Diane"
■"Diane in Bustle Skirt"
■"Diane and Beauty"
■"Lady Chatterley and Beauty"
■"Victoria Prudery"
■"Diane Chatterley"
■"From Canada to Japan"
■"From Gyoda to Vancouver"
■"Film Festival"
■"Madame Taliesin"
■"Happy Days"
■"Vancouver Again"
■"Swansea"
■"Midnight in Vancouver"
■"Madame Lindbergh"
■"Dead Poets Society"
■"Letters to Diane"
■"Taliesin Studio"
■"Wright and Japan"
■"Taliesin Banzai"
Hi, I'm June Adames.
Oscar Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer.
He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington.
He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career.
He is considered to have been one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, having played thousands of live concerts to audiences worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years.
He was born in 1925 to immigrants from the West Indies.
His father worked as a porter for Canadian Pacific Railway.
Peterson grew up in the neighbourhood of Little Burgundy in Montreal, Quebec.
It was in this predominantly black neighbourhood that he found himself surrounded by the jazz culture that flourished in the early 20th century.
At the age of five, Peterson began honing his skills with the trumpet and piano.
However, a bout of tuberculosis at age seven prevented him from playing the trumpet again, and so he directed all his attention to the piano.
As a child, Peterson also studied with Hungarian-born pianist Paul de Marky, a student of István Thomán, who was himself a pupil of Franz Liszt, so his training was predominantly based on classical piano.
Meanwhile he was captivated by traditional jazz and learned several ragtime pieces and especially the boogie-woogie.
At age nine Peterson played piano with control that impressed professional musicians.
For many years his piano studies included four to six hours of practice daily.
Only in his later years did he decrease his daily practice to just one or two hours.
In 1940, at age fourteen, Peterson won the national music competition organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
After that victory, he dropped out of school and became a professional pianist working for a weekly radio show, and playing at hotels and music halls.
Peterson lived in a two-storey house on Hammond Road in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, until his death in 2007 of kidney failure.
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